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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a read more
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, read more
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can read more
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
